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Tyler Perry Says He Was Once Homeless Living in a Car & Inspires Fans on His Humble Beginnings

Jana Stevens
Mar 21, 2023
09:45 A.M.

Tyler Perry took an immaculately restored cobalt Geo Metro for a spin in remembrance of a similar compact vehicle he lived in for three months in the early '90s. In the March 20, 2021 post, he reminded his social media following that by appreciating all your blessings; it's impossible to be ungrateful.

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Billionaire media mogul Tyler Petty concluded the inspiring post by saying, "And if you're still in the struggle, please fight on…. It's so sweet on the other side of pain." Seeing the kind of car his hero lived in was "true motivation and inspiration" for a fan, congratulating the star on never giving up.

"Inspired," Andie Macdowell commented, "Wow, I had no idea that you were homeless. Good to keep those feet on the ground!!!" A homeless mother wrote: "Watching this gives me so much hope!" While an Instagram user said his "humble beginnings" reminded her of her own, and she's also grateful for how far she's come.

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Tyler Perry Inherited the Attitude of Not Giving up & Faith from His Family

Perry previously contrasted his unhoused period with the inclusion of the studio bearing his name in Atlanta to the highway signs in August 2020. Tyler Perry Studios is built on a former 330-acre lot that used to be a Confederate Army base.

In 2020 Forbes estimated Petty's pre-tax income from 2005 to be in the range of $1.4 billion

The studio head told AARP in August last year that they buried Bibles under the dozen sound stages to refocus "the spirit of the place." Among his workforce, that number in the thousands, are former prisoners "who wouldn't have had this shot."

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As an unknown playwright, Tyler Perry's faith helped him to keep pushing to produce his first faith-based play about child abuse, "I Know I've Been Changed," even after losing all his money to put it up for the first time at the start of the 1990s. For the writer, faith is in his DNA. He elaborated on his religious lineage:

"That never-give-up thing came from my mother and my aunts and the ministers and preachers in my family. I can trace the preachers back to slavery."

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In 2020 Forbes estimated Petty's pre-tax income from 2005 to be in the range of $1.4 billion, crediting the entertainer for maintaining ownership of his vast intellectual properties.

His physical properties are spread throughout the country in New York, Atlanta, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Montecito. He famously made the latter mansion available to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after they stepped back as working senior members of the British monarchy.

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